Classes & Tutorials

About

The Ebling Library supports, facilitates, and fosters information literacy for all of our patrons and promotes self-sufficiency (life long learning) in an ever-changing information environment.

What We Can Do for You

Group Instruction:
For any class or group, library staff will develop and conduct a customized session on a wide variety of topics. Sessions can be taught either in your department or within the library.

Individual consultation:
Need help searching a database or using a citation manager? Having a hard time keeping up to date on specific topics or journals? This and much more can be covered during a one-on-one session with a librarian.

Library Tours:
Would you like a tour of Ebling Library? Library staff will be available between the hours of 9:00-4:30 pm. Mon-Fri. Just stop by the Service Desk or call (608) 262-2020 and make an appointment

Workshops: Free workshops are available on a variety of subjects such as PubMed, EndNote, Evidence-based practice, and more. No registration is required, but if you have questions about any of our workshops or suggestions for other classes, please contact Ebling Workshops.

Contact Us

Ebling Library Workshops Calendar

This workshop does not have any sessions scheduled at this time; however, we are happy to schedule individual consultations on any of our resources and tools. To request a consultation, or to inquire about future class schedules, please contact Ebling Workshops.

Workshop Instruction

Free workshops are available on a variety of subjects such as PubMed, EndNote, Evidence-based practice, and more. No registration is required, but if you have questions about any of our workshops or suggestions for other classes, please contact Ebling Workshops.

Descriptions & Materials

We offer instruction on a variety of library topics and resources, including databases, citation managers, and current awareness services. These workshops take place on most Wednesdays from noon-1pm in room 3268 of the HSLC [Map]. Sessions are free, open to all, with no pre-registration required, so just drop-in!

PubMed has many tools that most researchers seldom use. Learn about some of these hidden features that can help you search more efficiently, such as the MeSH database, topic-specific search filters, the Journals database, and saving searches in My NCBI.

EndNote, a citation management database, is designed to help you import (from journal databases, etc.) collect, organize, and save bibliographic citations/references, and to insert citations directly into research papers using any one of hundreds of style formats. We will demo some of EndNote Web's features too.

EndNote, a citation management database, is designed to help you import (from journal databases, etc.) collect, organize, and save bibliographic citations/references, and to insert citations directly into research papers using any one of hundreds of style formats. We will demo some of EndNote Web?s features too.

You must bring your own Mac to this class.

Citation Manager: EndNote Web

EndNote Web is a web-based citation manager free to all UW-Madison staff and students! EndNote Web can be used as a stand-alone citation manager OR in conjunction with EndNote Desktop. In this workshop learn how to collect and share your references and create a bibliography in your manuscript.

Zotero, a citation manager, collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add references, PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself.

Need ideas to stay on top of your professional discipline, research interests, etc.? Does what little time you have seem to be spent learning new tools only to never use them? Then attend our Current Awareness Tools makeover! We can offer suggestions and consult with you on how to maximize your efficiency with the limited time you have. Good old fashioned RSS feeds and readers such as Feedly as well as BrowZine, the new journal browsing program for mobiles or desktops, will be covered.

CINAHL

This session will review the CINAHL database and focus on effective search techniques, understanding/using CINAHL Headings, using limits, creating alerts, saving citations into RefWorks and EndNote, accessing full text, and creating alerts or saved searches with a personalized folder.

This workshop will provide an overview on how to facilitate the access and reuse of your data within your research group, how to comply with institutional and funding agency policies on data management and how to properly secure your data. Topics include organizing and naming data files, backing up data and versioning, data management plans, and managing sensitive data subject to intellectual property law or human subjects protection.

Beyond Ebling

What We Teach

The topics below cover some of the areas we can teach (or help you teach) to your groups or classes. We encourage collaborative efforts between instructors (group leaders) and library instructors and can customize a class to support your curriculum, class, or group.
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Overviews of Resources & Services

Tours

Ebling Library

Health Sciences Learning Center

Remote Access from Home & Office (NetID)

Finding Books

Library Catalog (& My Library Catalog Account)

UW System Search

WorldCat

Finding Journals & Articles

Find It

Library Catalog

PubMed Citation Matcher

Obtaining Library Materials

ID Cards

Debit cards

Photocopying

Scanning

Delivery Service Options

Article & Book Delivery

Journal Pull/Hold

Book Retrieval/Recall

Citation Managers

EndNote

EndNote Web

EndNote Mac

Mendeley

Papers / Papers 2

Zotero

Special Topics

Evidence Based Practice in Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, or Allied Health